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RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, KARNATAKA,
BANGALORE
ANNEXURE II
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECT FOR DISSERTATION
1. NAME OF THE CANDIDATE
AND ADDRESS
(In Block Letters)
DR. SARVANI KALUVAKUNTLA
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA,
FATHER MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL,
UNIVERSITY ROAD, DERALAKATTE,
MANGALORE – 574160
D/O K. VENKATESWARLU
PERMANENT ADDRESS
L.I.C. CHAIRMAN’S CLUB MEMBER,
H.No. 4-2-150/2/3C,
SRINIVAS NAGAR,
KHAMMAM-507003
ANDHRA PRADESH.
2. NAME OF THE INSTITUTION
FATHER MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE & HOSPITAL,
DERALAKATTE,
MANGALORE – 574160
3. COURSE OF STUDY AND
M.D. (HOM.)
HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
SUBJECT
4. DATE OF ADMISSION TO
16.06.2008
COURSE
5. TITLE OF THE TOPIC
“A
STUDY
ON
THE
CONSTITUTIONAL
MURIATICUM.”
1
ASPECT
OF
NATRUM
6.
BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK
6.1 NEED FOR THE STUDY
A homoeopathic physician take a total view of man, conceptualizing him as body ,
soul, and spirit. Man consists of an inseparable whole of mind and body. Any change in
external or internal environment, which is capable of producing alteration, does effect the
whole man during healthy as well as disease state.
The successful application of the law of similars depends entirely on the concept of
individualization and susceptible constitutions which forms the cornerstone of
homoeopathic practice. The concept of individualization takes into consideration total
response of the organism to the unfavorable environment seen through signs and
symptoms on three planes emotional intellectual and physical where the life force
manifested itself. Mental symptoms are mostly different in different individual, hence
they really represent the patient and for a homoeopathic physician it is really the main
thing to match. In modern times, weakness on the emotional plane has become one of our
major existing health problems, whether because of lack of understanding of law of
nature, or because of continuous “therapeutic” suppression of relatively peripheral
ailments into the core of human existence, many of the problems of today’s world can be
seen as arising from emotion s which are imbalanced, misdirected and destructive.
Natrum Muriaticum (Sodium Chloride) is an important constituent of human
body. All body fluids contain sodium including blood. The major physiological functions
are maintaining fluid balance, generating electrical impulses in nerve and muscle and in
generating gradients across cells to enable uptake of nutrients.
Moreover when potentised sodium chloride is a very useful medicine for many
acute and chronic diseases. It has profound impact on human mind. In the society a large
number of patients is sufferings from psycho-somatic illness due to anxiety, grief,
worries, vexation etc. Homoeopathic medicines like Nat.mur are found to be very
effective in the treatment of such complaints. Further, there are a number of somatic
illnesses of different tissues and organs which respond positively to potentised Natrum
Muriaticum.
This study is an attempt to understand the clinical utility of Natrum muriaticum as
a constitutional medicine in patients suffering from various diseases.
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6.2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Synonyms of Natrum Muriaticum – Sodium Chloride, Chloruretum sodium, Natrum
Chloratum purum, Sodii chloridorm.
Common name – Common salt, table salt.1
Natrum muriaticum introduced and proved by Hahnemann.2 It is a deep
acting and long acting polychrest.3,4
A salt represents the union of two qualities. Natrum is a strong desire to
form a relationship, so much so that any rejection would cause tremendous hurt and
disappointment. This need of Natrum has to be balanced by a quality of expecting
disappointment and rejection, and unwillingness to form relationships. This is provided
by the muriaticum element (chlorine). Thus, Natrum Muriaticum is understandably a
very salt for it represents man’s need to form relationships, and at the same time the
ability to withstand rejection.11
Salt is a regulator of osmosis without its presence in the fluids of the body,
there would be no absorption of nutritive matter and no elimination of waste. Excessive
use dries up the secretions, inhibits assimilation, impoverishes the blood weakens the
nervous system and causes as tendency to idiopathic oedema.
Mind – Patients are emotionally very sensitive, consolation aggravates, hopeless feeling
about the future.5,6 Melancholic and depressed.7 This will be followed by tearfulness,
great sadness. There is a tendency to brooding over old disagreeable, insults. Unrequited
affection brings on complaints. Awkward and hasty, extremely forgetful.8,9
Their primary concern is not to hurt and not to be hurt. They have a high degree of
objectivity and awareness, responsibility. Enjoy being presented with challenging
circumstances even those involving emotional risk.
Delusions inferiority complex, love with wrong person, disappointment in love,
love with silent grief.10
Taciturn, offended at every word, likes to be alone. Sad and weeping mood without
any cause. Absent minded while talking.
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Physical Generals –

Appetite: Excessive hunger or no appetite.

Thirst: Constant, without desire to drink.

Desire: Beer, wine, bitter drinks, bread, coffee, cold drinks, farinaceous food, fish,
salty things, sweets.

Aversion: Fats, rich food, tobacco, smoking, water.

Urine: Involuntary when walking, coughing, laughing. Cutting pain just after
urination.

Bowels: Stool dry, hard, knotty like.

Perspiration: Day time, while eating, slight exertion, uncovered, symptoms
ameliorates, during sleep.
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Sleep: Sleepy but cannot sleep, sleepy by day, sleepless at night.

Dreams: Amorous, of anger, anxious, confused, of death, robbers.
Child – Very sensitive and delicate, take the smallest and most irrelevant fights between
the parents to the heart, depressed mood, deeply thinking about her proble ms. Baby is
very much cross, irritable even when
kindly spoken to, cries from the slightest cause.
The child gets into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled, consolation
aggravates all troubles. Craving for salt and aversion to bread12
Great emaciation especially marked in the neck with long neck. Hot baby, catches
cold easily, losing flesh while living well, weak ankles, they stumble or feet turn under
them. Pale, anaemic13,14
Head – Sensation as if a thousand little hammers are knocking on the brain. Headache is
splitting, throbbing, hammering accompanied by nausea and vomiting, congestive,
neuralgic, blurring blindness, aching and zigzags before the eye.15
Eye – Feel bruised with headache in school children, eye lids heavy, lachrymation –
acrid.
Ears – Noises; roaring and ringing.
Nose – Violent, fluent coryza, difficult breathing. Discharge thin and watery, like raw
white of egg. Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing.
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Face – Oily, shiny as if greased. Fever – blisters.
Mouth – Sensation as if a hair on the tongue, mapped with red insular patches.
Gastrointestinal Tract – Stimulates and increase digestibility. Indigestion with
vomiting. Violent thirst for large quantities. Ravenous hunger, heart burnt after eating.16
Constipation, stool hard like sheep dung, fissures in anus, hemorrhoids. Diarrhoea
alternate with constipation.17
Urinary System – Involuntary, scalding when urinating, cannot pass presence of
others18.
Male Reproductive System – Seminal emission soon after coition, impotence.
Female Reproductive System – Prolapsus uteri, menses irregular; usually profuse,
increase sadness before menses. Hot during menses.
Respiratory System – Sticking sensation in throat. Cough with bursting pain in head;
shortness of breath, sputa is thick whitish, watery, like the white of an egg, whooping
cough.19
Cardiovascular System – Palpitates, flutters, pulsates violently.
Extremities and Back – Joints weak, especially the ankle, small of back pain.
Nerves System – Stimulating effects on the nervous system, keeping up its tone, spinal
irritation.
Skin – Shiny, pale, waxy, oily.20
Fever – Chilly between 9 and 11 A.M, violent thirst, continued chillness in malarial
states.
Sleep – Drowsy by day wakeful by night. Disinclined to rise in morning.
Modalities – Aggravation: 10 to 11Am, music, warm room, lying down, at sea shore,
mental exertion, consolation, heat of sun.
Amelioration:
In
the
open
air,
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cold
bathing,
lying
on
right
side.
6.3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To highlight the efficacy of Natrum muriaticum as a constitutional remedy.
2. To highlight the important therapeutic utility of Natrum muriaticum
7.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
7.1 Source of Data:
The subjects will be selected from OPD, and peripheral centers of Father Muller
Homoeopathic Medical College, Deralakatte, Mangalore.
A minimum of 30 cases will be selected randomly as per the inclusion criteria and
will be followed for a minimum period of 3-6 months duration.
7.2. Methods of Collection of Data (including sampling procedure if any):
The data will be collected by purposive sample method and processed in a
standardized case record.
Every case will be analyzed and repertorised using suitable repertories, then further
reference will be made from the materia medica to select the constitutional medicine.
The potency selection and repetition of the doses will be done according to the
demand of the case, with consideration of potency selection criteria such as susceptibility
vitality, changes in structural and functional level and the degree of correspondence to
the remedies selected.
Inclusion Criteria:

The samples of both sexes aged 12-60 yrs.

Patients suffering from long standing complaints

Cases with similar mental and physical attributes like that of Natrum muriaticum.
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Exclusion Criteria:

Cases with severe mental retardation.

Malignant and other incurable diseases.

Cases treated with non-homoeopatic drug for long duration (more than 2 yrs)
Tools:
The data will be collected by purposive sample method and processed in a
standardized case record.
Research Hypothesis:
Natrum muriaticum is an effective constitutional remedy.
Null Hypothesis:
Natrum muriaticum is not effective as constitutional remedy.
Potentization does not bring about any curative property in sodium chloride.
7.3. Does the study require any Interventions to be conducted on patients or other
humans (or animals)? If so please describe briefly.
The following investigations may be done to rule out incurable medical conditions.

Blood routine – Hb, TC, DC, ESR.

Urine examination

Stool examination
7.4. Has ethical clearance been obtained from your Institution in case of 7.3?
Yes enclosed
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9. SIGNATURE OF CANDIDATE
10. REMARK OF THE GUIDE
11. NAME AND DESIGNATION OF
DR. SUNNY MATHEW
BHMS, MD
PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA,
FATHER MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL,
DERLAKATTE, MANGALORE – 574160
KARNATAKA.
11.1 GUIDE
11.2 SIGNATURE
11.3 CO-GUIDE
11.4 SIGNATURE
DR. SHRINATH RAO
BHMS, MD
PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIA MEDICA,
FATHER MULLER HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL,
DERLAKATTE, MANGALORE – 574160
KARNATAKA.
11.5 HEAD OF THE
DEPARTMENT
11.6 SIGNATURE
12. 12.1 REMARKS OF THE
CHAIRMAN & PRINCIPAL
12.2 SIGNATURE
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